Sr. Legal Counsel - Commercial

Job Title PayPal is seeking a strong transactional lawyer to be responsible for providing best in class commercial support for some of PayPal's largest merchant and partner deals. Job Description Essential Responsibilities: • Provide clear, pragmatic, and solution-oriented legal advice to enable business strategy while managing legal risk. • Participate in complex problem resolution, providing expert legal advice on high-stakes issues and disputes. • Ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations. • Partner with business counterparts across the enterprise to help drive the delivery of effective legal services. • Manage legal risks and safeguard PayPal's legal interests, developing comprehensive risk management frameworks. • Escalate complex issues to senior legal leadership where appropriate. Minimum Qualifications: • 8+ years relevant experience and a Juris doctorate degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience. Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications: • The position will involve drafting and negotiating highly complex multinational agreements (including with large global merchant organizations) and providing sophisticated, quick, concise, and high-quality legal advice. • The negotiations will include coordinating cross-functionally within PayPal to effectively craft deal strategies and to provide innovative advice for PayPal (including in the area of cross border payment services). • Ideally this attorney will be well-versed in technology, licensing, and payment/financial services (including payments product solutions), with a critical eye towards risk and regulatory issues. • Because the job will involve a large amount of drafting, editing, and writing, exceptional writing skills are an absolute necessity. • The ideal candidate will be a confident self-starter with strong interpersonal and organizational skills and a demonstrated ability to: effectively and proactively provide sound legal advice; build credibility with business partners; exercise good business judgment; work with senior management; and implement policies and processes on a cross-functional basis in a fast-paced environment. • At least 2 years experience managing large deal closings that involved tracking the status of interrelated agreements, triggers, and stakeholder requirements • Experience directly negotiating complex sales, marketing, or partner agreements with external parties • Experience working with multiple client-side stakeholders such as: sales, privacy, product, regional counsel, risk, and regulatory • Ability to spot issues and problems, take initiative, find solutions, make recommendations, organize internal coordination, bring about decisions, and implement change. • Demonstrated ability to effectively navigate legal, compliance, and business needs • Exceptional attention to detail and ability to generate creative original legal documents • Hands-on experience, either as outside or inside counsel, to financial services, fintech, or technology companies • Outstanding communication skills and ability to work both in teams and independently • Strong negotiation and interpersonal skills and the ability to partner with internal and external stakeholders across the globe • Experience in payments • Ability to be highly engaged and succeed in a collaborative environment